Hi all you readers out there,
I'm back and its time to start that Lv3 History work but I kinda of forgotten it a bit, so I need to review my work first....... and done, I've looked at my past work but I'm not sure how to blog about the effects European theories had on the native people of New Zealand, The Maori, analytical.
I guess I should go through the theory's first
Belief/theory
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Background
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Main ideas
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How would this affect European behaviour?
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How would this affect Maori behaviour?
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“Noble Savage”
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Rousseau - philosophy
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Europeans see themselves as corrupt
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Treat them like an endangered species
Ignore them
Jealous
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Might be frustrated/angry
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“Ignoble Savage”
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Cannibalism
Europeans being attacked
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Maori are bloodthirsty and not to be trusted
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Maori blamed more; Europeans wary of Maori
Scared
More violent towards Maori
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Maori feel more powerful
Protect themselves more
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Monogenism
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Biblical
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Single ancestor, but some people are better than others
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See Maori as distant relations
Treat Maori worse
Some feel obliged to ‘help Maori’
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Some might accept this
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Polygenism
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Self-made theories?
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Every race is a different breed of human being
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Maori will fall back to their old ways given the chance
No point ‘helping’ Maori
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Social Darwinism
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Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
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Strong races survive
Maori are a ‘dying race’
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Hard racism
Hierarchy of races
Leave Maori to die off
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Probably Maori would not engage with this idea
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Fatal Impact
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Social
Looking at what Europeans bring to NZ
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Without contact with Europeans, Maori would not be in a bad state
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Might make Europeans change the way they behave
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Might be racist towards Europeans?
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Aryan Maori
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Edward Tregear The Aryan Maori
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Maori are Aryan
Racial harmony
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Similar to Monogenism
With ‘master-race’ tones
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Accepted this theory (Peter Buck)
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Anti-Capitalist Maori
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Urbanisation
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Maori can’t cope with move to urban areas
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Polygenism in 20th Century
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Anger
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“Once Were Warriors”
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Maori Battalion
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Maori only good at fighting
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Stereotyping Maori
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all of these theory are based on trust, faith and semi to complete lack of evidence (kinda like a world famous book) so if based on flimsy foundation why did Europeans believe in this theories, while its important to understand that every European who came to New Zealand didn't believe in every and or any of these theories. Now back to the question, for the Europeans who did believe in these or a theory, why believe them. these theories were backed up by or from famous people and influences who the Europeans trusted. (see background column)
As pointed out by Lv3 History Class mates it kinda like sheep flowing the most influential and trustworthy information source that they believe in. so even before coming to New Zealand Europeans could have already set there theory's in stone.
Now these theory are basically the same to each other on some levels but I can see that some of them as building of each other. for example 'Monogenism' and the 'Aryan Maori' both see humans as decedents of a single ancestor and that the Europeans should help the Maori's